• engine: Use exponential VSM and improve VSM user settings [⚠️ Recompile Materials for VSM].
• engine: Optional blurring of VSM shadowmaps.
• engine: Fix a crash when using lens flares.
• engine: Fix backend crashes when using an unsupported sample count.
• gltfio: Add new getAssetAPI to FilamentInstance.
• gltfio: Introduce support for extras strings.
• OpenGL: Increase OpenGL backend handle arena from 2 to 4 MiB.
• Vulkan: Fix Texture swizzle support.